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Unidentified Whitehorn Gold Deposit

Occurrence in Fremont county in Colorado, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Copper
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10013836
MRDS ID D010358
Record type Site
Current site name Unidentified Whitehorn Gold Deposit

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -105.90531, 38.66111 (WGS84)
Elevation 3048
Location accuracy 100(meters)
Relative position 9.9 MILES N28E OF SALIDA POST OFFICE, Locations Given For Prospects Found On Topographic Map

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Fremont(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Cameron Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Pikes Peak(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Pueblo(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Arkansas Headwaters(hydrologic unit)

Upper Arkansas(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Arkansas(hydrologic subregion)

Arkansas-White-Red(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Pike and San Isabel National Forests(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Colorado Fremont

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 051N 010E 07,08,17,18 SW OF SE (18) Colorado

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATIONS GIVEN FOR PROSPECTS ON TOPOGRAPHIC MAP IN GENERAL AREA. THESE MAY OR MAY NOT BE THE CORRECT LOCATIONS; NW OF WHITEHORN, EAST OF FREMONT/CHAFFEE COUNTY LINE ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1976)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary
Copper Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Gold Ore
Silver Ore
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Rock unit name Quartz Monzonite (Whitehorn Stock)
    Rock description Quartz Monzonite (Whitehorn Stock)
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -105.90531, 38.66111
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Southern Mosquito Range, Arkansas Valley Graben
Type of structure Local
Structure description Pleasant Valley Syncline

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Dikes, Faults

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Whitehorn District (Adjacent To Calumet (Turret) District On Chaffee County Side)

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    VANDERWILT, J.W., 1947, MINERAL RESOURCES OF COLORADO: COLORADO MINERAL RESOURCES BOARD, P. 87.

  • Deposit

    BOARDMAN, S.J., 1976, GEOLOGY OF THE PRECAMBRIAN METAMORPHIC ROCKS OF THE SALIDA AREA, CHAFFEE COUNTY, COLORADO: THE MOUNTAIN GEOLOGIST, V. 13, NO. 3, P. 89-100.

  • Deposit

    BOARDMAN, S.J., 1971, PRECAMBRIAN GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE SALIDA AREA, CHAFFEE COUNTY, COLORADO: PH.D. THESIS, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, 131 P.

  • Deposit

    LINDGREN, WALDEMAR, 1908, NOTES ON COPPER DEPOSITS IN CHAFFEE FREMONT, AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES, COLORADO: USGS BULLETIN 340, P. 157-174 &&

  • Deposit

    SCOTT, G.R., TAYLOR, R.B., EPIS, R.C., WOBUS, R.A., 1978

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit QUARTZ-FILLED VEIN FOLLOWING FINE-GRAINED PORPHYRY DIKE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-83 Collins, Donna B. Colorado Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

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